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by ivankirigin 6238 days ago
A problem that is obvious and growing should be "worried about" immediately. If you wait till the problem is gone and you've lost, it's too late.

At my last job (at a company of 500), I used MS for office tools, OSes, and server side services like mail.

At my startup, as the "IT" guy, I live on google for free and Apple for cheap. I curse under my breath when I get a Word Doc or PowerPoint instead of a PDF. My company can scale to 500 on these practices, which means Microsoft has a great deal to worry about. Right now.

[edit: correction, I use Windows on a cheap PC to periodically test how broken IE is. Soon that will be a convenient web service]